The significance of Lady Day
The Brewers’ Company scrapbook contains (amongst many other items) a bill of fare for a dinner on Lady Day in 1694: 2 dishes Salt Fish – 16s 2 dishes Roast Fowl – 12s 2 Pidgon Pyes – £1 4s Neck Veal & Fillet ragued – 15s Surloyn beef – 12s Oranges & Lemons – 3s (Fire & labour) – 12s Total...
29 March 2021